Project Senium is a collaboration of several filmmakers with a common goal—to preserve historical, abandoned places. While the growth in popularity of urban exploration has brought to light the beauty of abandoned spaces, calling attention to such locations can bring vandals and looters. Project Senium aims to protect the buildings by withholding their locations, but also by bringing their historical context to light.

"The buildings are a testament to what happened in the past and every day they are withering away," one of Project Senium's documentarians, Nicolas Levasseur, told weather.com.

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Project Senium began in September 2014 with an Indiegogo campaign. The filmmakers explored different abandoned places throughout New York for the production, learning about the buildings' histories along the way. The project pays special attention to abandoned mental hospitals.

"Our country's past mental health practices intrigued us and we knew the story needed to be told or it would be forgotten. History repeats itself and if we are not careful the inhumane events that onced happened in these places will happen again. This inspired us to capture what was left and to tell their story," Levasseur said.

"Wherever there is great suffering, stories of hauntings and the supernatural follow, and this asylum proves no exception," the film's narrator says in the beginning of the short documentary. The images of the abandoned rooms hold an eeriness that must only be more intense within the buildings' walls.

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The longer the buildings have been abandoned, the more vulnerable they become, both to the weather and to human influence. The elements break down the structures, and they eventually will be unsafe to enter. Vandals only speed up the process and, acording to Project Senium, the combination of these two factors and the ever-present threat of demolition will soon cause many of these inspiring places to disappear.

"Abandoned places inspire us with their mystery and beauty as the decay of time slowly pulls back the paint and breaks down the walls. Nature begins to take over once again and we like to search for the little things that are left behind," Levasseur explained.

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